SlackBuilds Repository

Ardesia turns your screen into a digital sketchpad to annotate or drawon the entire screen. It also lets you record and stream it on thenetwork with vlc. You can draw upon the desktop or import an imageas well as annotate and redistribute it. Ardesia is also pressuresensitive assuming your device is properly configured.

USER TIPS:

Ardesia functions differently under different window managers.

Fluxbox/Blackbox: D-Even with cairo-compmgr or xcompmgr these only function with a solid colorbackground. You may have difficulty selecting tool box, try launchingwith '-d'. As for other minimalist window managers, you are on your own.

XFCE: CThe drawing window has a title bar and you can't type in windows unless shadedor minimized. Unknown work around for this.

GNOME 3.0: FSorry, I have no work around for the issues with this window manager.- The Application hides the bar at the top (you can still access Activities with a shortcut key.- The Tool Box will always be below the drawing window.- Because of the tool box, the main features of pictures, pdf, an screen record can not be accessed.

Other:If you have 'focus' extensions that gray out everything but the focusedwindow, you will probably have to disable it. However, if you are usingcompiz, you probably are not using ardesia because there is a plugin for allthis functionality.

General:Depending on the window manager, you may need to launch as "ardesia -d" toobtain control of the tools panel. This may also require tweaking of othersettings to have the pannel appear on top of the drawing overlay window. Youmay have to toggle "always on top" for the drawing window if you are capableof toggling it seperatly from the tool box window.

The "mouse option" only seems to effectively work in KDE and XFCE. This isa pass through mode that will interact with the desktop below the drawingwindow.

The PDF export will allow you to add new pages to a pdf that are screencaptures of when the button is pressed. It does not save vector shapes.

Here some xprops of the windows if you can control windows based on these: